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Congratulations to Mei Ling Young who has been awarded the Deirdre and Paul Malone Prize in International Relations for her thesis - Preconceptions and Contraceptions: The Population Establishment and US Population Policy Towards the Developing World from Eisenhower to Reagan.

The Cyber Studies Programme held its third international training session on the Modern Information Society on April 22-24, 2016, at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia. The theme of the three-day course was: “The State and Citizens in the Cyber Age: Security, Diplomacy, and Public Policy”. ​Dr Lucas Kello, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Programme Director, served as faculty chair of the training sessions. The teaching staff also included Dr Ivan Martinovic from the Department of Computer Science; Siim Sikkut of the Estonian Government Office; Prof Innar Liiv of Tallinn University of Technology and Cyber Studies Visiting Research Fellow; and Jamie Collier, DPhil candidate in Cyber Security. The training sessions were funded by the European Social Fund and the Estonian Government.

On 15 June 2016, Innar Liiv, Associate Professor of Data Science in the Department of Informatics at Tallinn University of Technology and a Cyber Studies Visiting Research Fellow, gave a seminar on the use of data science and Big Data in the public sector. The talk reviewed conceptual frameworks that help to make sense of "Data for Policy” as an emerging field of interdisciplinary study. Dr Liiv also discussed policy challenges and opportunities, cutting-edge technologies, Big Data sources, and emerging research domains (computational social science and political bots), as well as de-anonymisation and privacy issues.

Angela Cummine has been quoted in an article by the Financial Times (12 June) about the contingency plans currently being drawn up by the managers of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the light of a dispute over Libya's $66bn fund.

The ways politicians, governments, think-tanks, campaigning groups and the public think about political futures is continuously negotiated and deeply contested. Who shapes the ways we think about the future?